The Boston Globe recently featured Irina Brook and her style of “organic adaptation,” which she is currently employing on The Canterville Ghost in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Brook is Shakespeare & Company’s first director-in-residence and will direct three plays over the next nine months.
In a rehearsal room, the five actors in “The Canterville Ghost” are creating a scene for the production. They all have costume pieces — a hat, a scarf, a teacup — to help define the characters, and with a suggestion from Brook, they’re off, improvising dialogue that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes incomprehensible, but always high energy. At any given moment, Brook will stop them, consider a section and work through it, refining the details.
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